Posts with keyword: real-time

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A Database is Like a Phone that Doesn't Ring

Mon Oct 31 10:34:00 2011

The Evented API specification is a way to get the phones ringing in today's Web APIs. For real-time applications, that's critical.
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The Trends Driving KRL and Kynetx

Mon Apr 25 17:57:00 2011

In my last post, I outlined a few benefits that developers could gain from using KRL. Well and good, but so what? Are those benefits that matter? How do they relate to the other reasons programmers learn new languages like money and opportunity? In this post, I will talk about some of the big trends driving my thinking and informing the decisions around what KRL is and why it enables the abstractions that it does. There are three trends I'd like to examine: The rise of real-time data and the evented Web The rise of personal data and user-centricity
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The Real-Time Web

Thu Nov 11 09:45:00 2010

Over the last several years, we've witnessed a dramatic shift in how people use the Web. What started as interactive Web applications under the moniker "Web 2.0" has become a firestorm of social applications like Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare, among others. But underlying these changes is something even more important than the "social" Web: the "real-time" Web. The real-time Web is a radical shift in how people use the Internet: rather than simply viewing static pages, or even interacting with a Web site, the real-time Web uses dynamic streams of information to present contextual, relevant experiences to user. These
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